US English spelling is incorrectly marked as misspelled, treated as UK English

[Ad Hoc]

Binary package hint: firefox

I am running the en-US dictionary (I checked this in my browser's 'About' screen and this report will also signify this).

When I type words like 'color' and 'favorite' they are marked as misspelled (I can see the red lines now ;) but they are clearly spelled correctly.
The spelling suggestions offer the UK alternatives ['colour' and 'favourite', respectively]. This leads me to think that the US English dictionary is not correct.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 18 14:19:22 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux glenn-work 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Ad Hoc (glenn-smartlogicsolutions)]

I see the extension summary say en-GB, yet I see this in my Firefox info:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

And I have also explicitly checked in my options and the default is US English. (see attachment for this).

[Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)]

What is the output of locale?

[Ad Hoc (glenn-smartlogicsolutions)]

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this, but I can give you more information
regarding the problem.
Firefox's spellchecker is marking words such as 'color' as misspelled and
corrects them with the British spellings [i.e. 'colour']. My local settings
are for US english as shown in the image I attached. The output of "Help >
About Mozilla Firefox" yields:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204
Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

Additionally, the Add-On for the English (GB) Pack has been disabled and
Firefox was already restarted since then. I have included a snapshot of the
Add-On box to exemplify this. Despite all this evidence that the US
dictionary is active, 'color' is still marked wrong and 'colour' marked
correct. I am verifying this as I type.

On Dec 18, 2007 4:05 PM, Bruce Cowan <email address hidden> wrote:

> What is the output of locale?
>
> --
> US English spelling is incorrectly marked as misspelled, treated as UK
> English
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177227
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

--
Glenn James Gentzke
SmartLogic Solutions, LLC

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[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:17:52PM -0000, Ad Hoc wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this, but I can give you more information
> regarding the problem.
> Firefox's spellchecker is marking words such as 'color' as misspelled and
> corrects them with the British spellings [i.e. 'colour']. My local settings
> are for US english as shown in the image I attached. The output of "Help >
> About Mozilla Firefox" yields:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204
> Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
>
> Additionally, the Add-On for the English (GB) Pack has been disabled and
> Firefox was already restarted since then. I have included a snapshot of the
> Add-On box to exemplify this. Despite all this evidence that the US
> dictionary is active, 'color' is still marked wrong and 'colour' marked
> correct. I am verifying this as I type.
>

please post the contents of /usr/lib/firefox/dictionries

and try to remove the DB dictionary extension you have installed
(vs. just disabling it)

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[wolfger (wolfger)]

Over 4 months without a response. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[John Hart (jlhart68)]

Reopen it.

I have the same problem with GB English spelling being correct and I want US-Englsih spelling to be correct. This is annoying and needs to be corrected. It has persisted across several versions of Firefox. I am using Version 7.0 now.